Luis Ortiz Gervasi

@logdeldongo.bsky.social

Associate Professor | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | educational and employment inequalities, labour markets, transition from education to work

La universidad privada va estableciéndose progresivamente como la proveedora de títulos de máster, frente a la universidad pública, con lo que ello puede implicar para la desigualdad de oportunidades por origen social en la transición de estudios de BA a MA en España.

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In the early 1900s, the wage premium for going to college was the same for sons from both rich and poor families : +10 ranks (+15%) in the wage distribution. Today, the wage premium has grown for the rich but sharply fallen for the poor. We call this "collegiate regressivity".

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What happened to the heterogeneity of British academia after Brexit (i.e., the composition of scholars working in the UK)? The article posted provides a preliminary answer.

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · 2y ago

👓Recommended reading📚 🆕Migration of researchers 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ @ebrusanliturk.bsky.social @samin.mas.to.ap.brid.gy @ezagheni.bsky.social + Francesco Billari assess the initial effects of the 2016 Brexit referendum on the mobility of researchers to and from the UK. 🧵1/3

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The Occupational Earnings Potential (OEP) scale is also now fully integrated into the DIGCLASS R package, so you can construct OEP from ISCO-88 or ISCO-08 with just a couple of lines of code

Translate ISCO codes to OEP (Occupational Earning Potential) — isco08_to_oep

Translates ISCO08/ISCO88 codes to OEP, a hierarchical indicator of occupations' earning potential. OEP is a numeric scale that measures occupations' median earnings and expresses them as percentiles o...

cimentadaj.github.io

Katy Morris@katymorris.bsky.social · 2y ago

OEP comes to the JRC! A @unil.bsky.social, @forsresearch.bsky.social & @sofi.su.se collaboration, in which we introduce a new linear scale that measures the median earnings of ISCO occupations and expresses them as percentiles of the overall earnings distribution

These interesting results make me think about relative deprivation (relative to other times or other groups) as the main driver of political unrest. It's not absolute but relative deprivation, that drives that unrest.

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose@rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 2y ago

Discontent thrives not in poverty’s depths but in the shadow of lost prosperity. Across the #EU, once-thriving regions now stagnate, fuelling #discontent & #Euroscepticism. It's not hardship alone, but the ache of decline that erodes trust in #institutions doi.org/10.1080/0013...